The Future of the Future

                                                            -  Brother Cliffe

STANDING HERE NOW

THE FUTURE SEEMS DISTANT.

BUT THOUGHTS HAVE A WAY

OF CREEPING UP ON YOU

WITH IMPECCABLE TIMING

UNCANNY IN ITS MOMENT

IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT

CREATION IS FILLED WITH POTENTIAL

ONE CAN DEFECT FUTURE'S PRESENCE

IN THE SEEDS OF NOW.

 

IN EVERY SEED LIES

THE REQUISITION OF A TREE

WITH ALL THE NUTRIENTS

IT WILL EVER NEED.

EVERY TREE PROMISES

A BLOSSOMING FRUIT

JUST AS EVERY FRUIT

PROMISES TO DROP.

AND WHERE COULD IT DROP?

PERHAPS IN THE HANDS OF

A GRATEFUL TRAVELER

IN WHOSE HUNGER LAY

THE POTENTIAL FOR FULFILLMENT.

 

IN EVERY MAN AND EVERY WOMAN,

LIES THE POTENTIAL FOR A CHILD

IN WHOSE INEVITABLE GROWTH

SIGNALS ADULTHOOD.

THUS I UNDERSTAND HOW

CHILD IS THE FATHER OF MAN.

BECAUSE EMBEDDED IN EVERY ACTION

A CERTAIN FUTURE IS ENCASED

 

THE BLOOMING LOGIC

OF CAUSE AND EFFECTIVELY

IN THE PRESENT,

PAST AND FUTURE INTERSECT.

WHAT TO KNOW YOUR FUTURE,

COMMIT TO AN ACTION

OPEN A DOOR

THERE SEEMS

SOMETHING

UNCANNY IN ALL THINGS

THAT OCCUR

WHO WE BECOME

DEPENDS

ON WHO WE WERE.

GOD, YOU WORK

IN INGENIOUS WAYS.

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